Blu-Ray Review: Deaf Crocodile’s Ilya Muromets
The fine folks at Deaf Crocodile have done it again bringing to Blu-Ray a vital piece of World Genre CinemaContinue Reading
Tag: Russia
Film Review: Firebird (2022)
Based on the memoirs of the lead character, Firebird is a story of love and longing in, of all places, a SovietContinue Reading
Compartment No 6 – MANIFF 2022
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner Compartment No 6 gets a showing at Manchester Film Festival. A snowy journey with real warmth.Continue Reading
Film Review: Brighton 4th (2022)
A success at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Brighton 4th is a tender, sad portrait of the illusion of immigration and theContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Jet Pilot (KL Studio Classics)
The Cold War gets hot with Wayne and Leigh in Jet Pilot the Technicolor Action Romantic by Joseph Von Sternberg and HowardContinue Reading
Far Eastern Golgotha – Raindance Film Festival 2021
Taxi driver Viktor Toroptsev is an unlikely YouTube sensation, but this documentary about a man determined to change things inContinue Reading
Petrov’s Flu – London Film Festival 2021
This surreal, fever-dream of a story set in post-Soviet Russia comes from controversial film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov, whoContinue Reading
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? – London Film Festival 2021
Star-crossed lovers fail to recognise each other as the result of a strange spell, and what follows is a poemContinue Reading
Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
Living up to its name Sweetie You Won’t Believe It is a bold dark comedy out of Russia about three guys onContinue Reading
Misha – MANIFF 2021 Opening Night
Misha, the opening film of Manchester Film Festival (MANIFF) 2021 is interesting and raises more questions than it answers. ButContinue Reading